After making Raid Suits for everyone, Ai Haibara Meow buried herself in the laboratory again. Compared to flashy things like Raid Suits, what truly interested the Little Kitten was Germa's core technology, the Lineage Factor.
However, the Lineage Factor lived up to its reputation as the pinnacle of bioengineering in the One Piece world. Even Ai Haibara Meow couldn't master it completely in a short time.
Apart from Ai Haibara Meow, who was engrossed in her research, Xie Wen and the others returned to their days of exploring the map while running the Palico Seafaring Mobile Restaurant.
And as time passed, the reputation Xie Wen had built up gradually faded, and foolish pirates who either didn't know better or wanted to make a name for themselves by stepping on the "Sapphire Star" started coming to make trouble for them again.
So Xie Wen happily collected the bounties they delivered right to his doorstep, making several tidy sums on the side.
That day, the Toot Toot Forward docked beside a newly reached island as usual. First, Xie Wen took two of the cats onto the island to uncover the map and buy supplies. After they returned to the ship, they raised a pale camel-colored flag with a brown paw print in the middle, a knife and fork on one side, and chopsticks on the other, signaling that the "Palico Restaurant" was officially open for business.
The customers on the island who had heard of the restaurant's reputation, some of whom had even come specifically for it, immediately boarded when they saw the flag go up.
"Klee's fish blasting! Klee's fish blasting! Klee's fish blasting!"
A group of children dragged their parents straight to the enormous glass fish tank, while the gourmets who enjoyed fine food headed over to Sanji Meow in